This is an analysis of The Town Down By The River by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
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Said the Watcher by the Way…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a AXbacddc ceeacacX Xbbafddf fccgegeX X AhXadhhd deeabaeX Xhhafiif fccgjgjX X Ahhabhhb bbbXkakX Xhhafddf fllgfgXX X AhhXchhX cddacXcX XdXAhbbh hllXeXXA
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1 1010101 00110100 00110010 10001101 111110 11111 1010111 10111110 101101110 0011010 10101110 1111101 11111110 1111111 11101110 11111010 101111110 10110010 10111010 0011101 111011 11111 1110111 10111011 101111111 00101010 10101010 1011111 11111110 1111111 11111010 10101110 1 1010101 001001110 001101000 10111101 111111 00101 1000101 00111011 101101011 0011010 10101010 1110111 11111010 1110111 11100010 11111010 10111111000 10101110 101111010 1110111 111011 11101 0011111 11111111 100111011 10101010 10111010 1010111 10110110 1110111 10101010 11111110 1 1010101 00101110 00110110 10111101 101010 10101 1110101 01111110 101111010 01101010 10001010 0110101 11111110 0110111 11111010 00101010 1011011110 10111010 101111110 1111111 111011 10111 1010101 11111111 101111011 10101010 10111010 1010001 10100010 1010111 10101010 00111110 1 1010101 0111110 00100110 101111010 1001110 111011 1011111 11101110 100101010 11101011 11101011 1111101 10111110 1110110 11111010 10100010 101101100 10101011 111010110 1010101 101110 10111 1011101 10101010 100101010 11111110 11101110 10100110 1001111010 10111110 1001011100 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 132
Repeated words/phrases
to, you, tell, me, we, as, have
Anaphora
to, tell, you, we, let, are
Epiphora
us, you
